# Ice hockey at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

Ice hockey at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics was held at Kristins Hall in Lillehammer, Norway from 12 to 21 February. The difference between the Youth Olympic program for ice hockey and the Winter Olympics was the addition of a skill challenge for each gender.

## Medal summary
### Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | Romania | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | Sweden | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Canada | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Czech Republic | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Italy | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Slovakia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Austria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Finland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Russia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (13 entries) | Totals (13 entries) | 4 | 4 | 5 | 13 |

### Events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Boys' tournament details | United States (USA) Jack DeBoer Drew DeRidder Ty Emberson Jonathan Gruden Christian Krygier Will MacKinnon Erik Middendorf Jacob Pivonka Adam Samuelsson Mattias Samuelsson Ryan Savage Todd Scott Jacob Semik Oliver Wahlstrom T. J. Walsh Tyler Weiss Jake Wise | United States (USA) Jack DeBoer Drew DeRidder Ty Emberson Jonathan Gruden Christian Krygier Will MacKinnon Erik Middendorf Jacob Pivonka Adam Samuelsson Mattias Samuelsson Ryan Savage Todd Scott Jacob Semik Oliver Wahlstrom T. J. Walsh Tyler Weiss Jake Wise | Canada (CAN) Luka Burzan Dennis Busby Declan Chisholm Aidan Dudas Alexis Gravel Benoit-Olivier Groulx Carson Focht Gabriel Fortier Anderson MacDonald Jared McIsaac Allan McShane Ryan Merkley Tristen Nielsen Connor Roberts Olivier Rodrigue Ty Smith Jett Woo | Canada (CAN) Luka Burzan Dennis Busby Declan Chisholm Aidan Dudas Alexis Gravel Benoit-Olivier Groulx Carson Focht Gabriel Fortier Anderson MacDonald Jared McIsaac Allan McShane Ryan Merkley Tristen Nielsen Connor Roberts Olivier Rodrigue Ty Smith Jett Woo | Russia (RUS) Gleb Babintsev Maxim Denezhkin Grigori Denisenko Georgi Dubrovski Alexander Khovanov Vladislav Kotkov Pavel Kupchikhin Anton Malyshev Amir Miftakhov Kirill Nizhnikov Pavel Rotenberg Ilyas Sitdikov Yegor Sokolov Andrei Svechnikov Alexander Zhabreyev Bogdan Zhilyakov Danil Zhuravlyov | Russia (RUS) Gleb Babintsev Maxim Denezhkin Grigori Denisenko Georgi Dubrovski Alexander Khovanov Vladislav Kotkov Pavel Kupchikhin Anton Malyshev Amir Miftakhov Kirill Nizhnikov Pavel Rotenberg Ilyas Sitdikov Yegor Sokolov Andrei Svechnikov Alexander Zhabreyev Bogdan Zhilyakov Danil Zhuravlyov |
| Boys' individual skills challenge details | Eduard Cășăneanu Romania | 14 | Sebastián Čederle Slovakia | 12 | Erik Betzold Germany | 11 |
| Boys' individual skills challenge details | Eduard Cășăneanu Romania | 14 | Sebastián Čederle Slovakia | 12 | Aleks Haatanen Finland | 12 |
| Girls' tournament details | Sweden (SWE) Anna Amholt Josefin Bouveng Fanny Brolin Jennifer Carlsson Wilma Carlsson Julia Gustafsson Therese Järnkrok Lina Ljungblom Sofie Lundin Ronja Mogren Maja Nylén Persson Linnéa Sjölund Madelene Strömgren Mina Waxin Madelen Westerlund Agnes Wilhelmsson Ethel Wilhelmsson | Sweden (SWE) Anna Amholt Josefin Bouveng Fanny Brolin Jennifer Carlsson Wilma Carlsson Julia Gustafsson Therese Järnkrok Lina Ljungblom Sofie Lundin Ronja Mogren Maja Nylén Persson Linnéa Sjölund Madelene Strömgren Mina Waxin Madelen Westerlund Agnes Wilhelmsson Ethel Wilhelmsson | Czech Republic (CZE) Kristýna Bláhová Nikola Dýcková Magdalena Erbenová Martina Exnerová Alexandra Halounová Sandra Halounová Karolína Hornická Karolína Hrdinová Klára Jandušíková Karolína Juřicová Anna Kotounová Šárka Krejníková Laura Lerchová Veronika Lorencová Barbora Machalová Natálie Mlýnková Adéla Škrdlová | Czech Republic (CZE) Kristýna Bláhová Nikola Dýcková Magdalena Erbenová Martina Exnerová Alexandra Halounová Sandra Halounová Karolína Hornická Karolína Hrdinová Klára Jandušíková Karolína Juřicová Anna Kotounová Šárka Krejníková Laura Lerchová Veronika Lorencová Barbora Machalová Natálie Mlýnková Adéla Škrdlová | Switzerland (SUI) Sina Bachmann Sydney Berta Tina Brand Yaël Brich Oona Emmenegger Rahel Enzler Ramona Forrer Justine Forster Janine Hauser Saskia Maurer Lisa Rüedi Noemi Ryhner Jessica Schlegel Gionina Spiess Nicole Vallario Stefanie Wetli Lara Zimmermann | Switzerland (SUI) Sina Bachmann Sydney Berta Tina Brand Yaël Brich Oona Emmenegger Rahel Enzler Ramona Forrer Justine Forster Janine Hauser Saskia Maurer Lisa Rüedi Noemi Ryhner Jessica Schlegel Gionina Spiess Nicole Vallario Stefanie Wetli Lara Zimmermann |
| Girls' individual skills challenge details | Sena Takenaka Japan | 16 | Anita Muraro Italy | 14 | Theresa Schafzahl Austria | 13 |

## Qualification system

There were ten teams in total (five per gender), with 17 players on each team. Participating nations were able to select whether they wished to participate in either the men's or women's ice hockey tournament according to the running order based on a joint under-18 world ranking established after the Men's and Women's U18 World Championships in 2015. Norway, as the host nation, was allowed to participate with one team of each gender.
For the skills challenge, the host nation was allowed to send one competitor of each gender. For the remaining competitors, national competitions were held, and the qualifiers attended a Global Skills Challenge at the 2015 Hockey Development Camp in Vierumäki, Finland.

### Boys

* United States (USA)
* Canada (CAN)
* Russia (RUS)
* Finland (FIN)
* Norway (NOR) (hosts)

### Girls

* Czech Republic (CZE)
* Sweden (SWE)
* Switzerland (SUI)
* Slovakia (SVK)
* Norway (NOR) (hosts)

### Skills challenge

The following athletes have qualified:
| Event | Boys' | Girls' |
| Host nation | Norway (NOR) | Norway (NOR) |
| Skills challenge qualifier | Germany (GER) Slovakia (SVK) Austria (AUT) France (FRA) Finland (FIN) Hungary (HUN) Canada (CAN) Belarus (BLR) Australia (AUS) Lithuania (LTU) Netherlands (NED) Chinese Taipei (TPE) Japan (JPN) Romania (ROU) New Zealand (NZL) | Japan (JPN) Australia (AUS) Argentina (ARG) Germany (GER) Italy (ITA) Austria (AUT) South Korea (KOR) Finland (FIN) Belgium (BEL) Slovakia (SVK) Netherlands (NED) Belarus (BLR) Great Britain (GBR) Poland (POL) Romania (ROU) |
| Total | 16 | 16 |